Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco.

Dorms at the Defense Language Institute West Coast in Monterrey, California.

Prior to troops advancing through the tree line, the flame tanks burnt out all the bobby-traps.

Flooding in Camp Dong Son after a typhoon in September 1968.

Lt. O'Rourke (center of picture) deploying troops during a firefight south of Hue.

Medevacing a soldier wounded in the leg during an firefight.

Camp Pendleton in September 1967 during Oakes' infantry training. The men slept in tents elevated on plywood floors because there was not enough housing for all the soldiers.

Rear area in Dong Ha for the 4th Marine Regiment. New mess hall under construction.

40 ft. Connex containers at FOB (Forward Operating Base) Q-West that housing four people each. These were what the men first moved into in December 2004.

Commercial airliner that carried Oakes and the other men to Kuwait.

Inside the living quarters at Camp Virginia, Kuwait, December 2004.

AH-64 Apache hovering at an Apache refueling point at FOB Diamondback. (Mosul)